Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...idea of quick fix diplomacy at the top is an illusion," Pipes added...
Andrei Gromyko's trip to the U.S. has given new urgency to a task that preoccupies Western experts on Soviet affairs: interpreting the current murky status of the Kremlin leadership. Says a top U.S. analyst in Washington: "We've got to get a better fix on who is running the show. This ignorance could really screw up our decisions...
...advance? Who should cover the costs of publicity or procuring a larger auditorium? Should members at least be entitled to preferred seating? Such questions may not be impossible to answer, but they indicate the type of regulatory morass that the University would enter if it undertook to fix detailed rules to govern exactly how each student group conduct its meetings...
Moreover, while Harvard in 1982-83 earned some $130,000 on Black Rock's endowment, it refused to spend money to fix up a road leading into the park and instead asked a local fishing club which uses the land for volunteers to do the job. It also appears that Harvard may have siphoned income from the account. While the Black Rock trust grew from $1.2 million in 1940 to $2.49 million in 1983 under Harvard's stewardship, the rest of the endowment increased more than eight times, to $2.5 billion...
...liberal which have been duly noted by Atkins, has an immensely strong political base in his hometown of more than 80,000 residents. As a former city councilman and Lowell's representative to the Massachusetts House, Shea is credited by Lowellians with bringing in millions of government dollars to fix up the city's flagging downtown over the last 10 years. That shot in the arm from the state and federal governments has in turn attracted business back to the city. Wang Labs has opened up a plant in Lowell, and the huge Courier Printing Co., which produces, among other...